Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 24, 2020 (Bank of America, N.A.).
Term ends Sep 4, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 2, 2031
Held by Asurion, LLC
Filed Apr 19, 2018 as application 15/957,262 · Granted Dec 1, 2020
Base term plus 191 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Jun 2, 2011
Jun 2, 2011
Term ends
Sep 4, 2031
Sep 4, 2031
Granted
Dec 1, 2020
Dec 1, 2020
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
191
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,635,092, US 9,984,416.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
4
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 191 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jun 2, 2011, when application 13/152,141, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 19, 2018) | Jun 2, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +191 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 10, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,635,092, US 9,984,416) | capped to Sep 4, 2031 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 4, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,635,092 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| US 9,984,416 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| US 10,853,885 | this patent Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| US 11,651,440 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 2018 Reel 47853, frame 681 | Wooldridge, Carl; Johnson, Brian; Anton, JR., Francis; Pittman, Jeffrey | Asurion Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 26, 2018 Reel 47984, frame 200 | Asurion Corporation | Asurion, LLC | Change of Name |
| Apr 10, 2019 Reel 48854, frame 598 | Wooldridge, Carl; Johnson, Brian; Anton, JR., Francis; Pittman, Jeffrey | Asurion, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's State of Incorporation Previously Recorded at Reel: 047853 Frame: 0681. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Oct 23, 2019 Reel 50809, frame 241 | Wooldridge, Carl; Johnson, Brian; Anton, JR., Francis; Pittman, Jeffrey | Asurion Corporation | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 048854 Frame: 0598. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Dec 24, 2020 Reel 54881, frame 366 | Asurion, LLC | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | First Lien Security Agreement (Supplement No. 8) |
| Dec 28, 2020 Reel 54854, frame 189 | Asurion, LLC | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Second Lien Security Agreement (Supplement No. 6) |
| Dec 19, 2025 Reel 73275, frame 401 | Asurion, LLC; Asurion Services, LLC; Simplr Solutions, Inc. | Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jan 30, 2026 Reel 73643, frame 1 | Asurion, LLC; Asurion Services, LLC; Simplr Solutions, Inc. | Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Sep 2031
Term ends Sep 4, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 191 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,635,092, US 9,984,416.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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